We’re happy to announce that The Ties That Bind DVD is now available to preorder, with an expected shipping date of August 2009. We worked long and hard on it, and I know you guys will love it.

From the product description page:

From director Jeff Heimbuch comes Brian Keene’s terrifying tale of love, loss… and zombies.

For ordering information, please go to www.thetiesthatbindmovie.com

I love Wawa hoagies. I eat them at least once a week. And that is no lie.

Wawa is doing their Hoagiefest again this year, and they are asking for people to submit songs and videos for a chance to win a gigantic Hoagie party for their friends, and free hoagies for a year.

So, I wrote a stupid rap song about my love for Wawa hoagies and it’s now live on their site and ready to be voted on.
If you could be so kind to vote me for, I’d appreciate it.

Vote FIVE STARS and I promise, if I win, I will invite everyone to my winning hoagiefest. It’ll be a hoagie party of epic proportions.

You can vote every day, once a day, for as long as the contest goes for (end of July, I think). So please vote as much as you can. Id love you forever…and so will my stomach.

Oh yea, and enjoy my crappy rap song. It’s totally bad and totally awesome. Hell, if you like it enough, I’ll set you up with a link to download it.

http://www.hoagiefest.com/music.php?user=bamfer23&music_id=24

After slacking for the past few months getting it up and running (I’ve just been using this site for all info on the film), The Ties That Bind finally has it’s own website up and running!

Check it out at www.thetiesthatbindmovie.com

I’ll be posting some information about the DVD there as well in the coming months. It’s all finished, minus the commentary, so as soon as we record that, expect an announcemnet!

I found a really great review from Dread Central about “Ties.” I’m pretty pumped about it! When one of the biggest horror websites gives you a good score, you just have to feel good about it!

A little except from it:

Heimbuch, who’s written and directed several shorts in various genres over the last couple of years, handles the visuals competently. There’s no flashy or gimmicky camera work here, which, in an age of shaky cam and over-stylization, is a breath of fresh air.

Heimbuch’s real strength, though, is in working with actors. When performers get what they need from their director, whether it’s comfort and understanding or to be challenged and pushed, they seem to give better performances. I think this tends to be a problem with a lot of low budget work; the directors are newer and not as sure of themselves so they aren’t able to provide their cast, who are also newer and not so sure of themselves, with the support they need, which ends up resulting in a bad performance. That is definitely not the case here.

The reviewer also says a lot of nice things about Kevin and Logan’s performances.

We wound up getting 4 out of 5 Knives! Go us!!!

You can read the entire review over at Dread Central by clicking here.

The barrage of national and international film festivals that The Ties That Bind will be playing at has begun (we already have 5 acceptances, with more to come!)!

After a successful premiere screening at the Garden State Film Festival, Ties is now embarking on a world tour, and I’m pretty excited about that. I’m going to try to get to as many of these festivals as I can, but who knows!

In any event, the next festival is at the Lancaster Area Film Festival (or LAFF for short!) Along with The Ties That Bind, you can also check out some of friend’s work as well! Mike Lombardo of Reel Splatter Productions will be on hand to show Demonstration of the Dead (which has a cameo from Brian Keene!), Womb For Two, and Dr. Blood’s Cinema Dungeon. Pat Dougherty, filmmaker co-hort of Mike “Gorebeast” Antonio will be showing Elkton’s Undead and They’ll Never Get Me (both of which feature Gorebeast himself!).

Not only that, but there are over 25 MORE films that will be playing.

Also on hand to support to films and do signings will be Brian Keene and JF Gonzalez.

And finally, I’ll have a bunch of Bamfer Productions t-shirts and Ties posters to give away! How can you go wrong?!

For a full schedule of screenings and more, check www.lancasterareafilmfestival.com for more details!

Also, here’s a neat little poster that Pat Dougherty made up to promote our films!

Hope to see you there!

As you may have already noticed, we have gone through a MASSIVE site redesign.

Hopefully everything will be much easier to navigate around now, and it looks a hell of a lot nicer, too!

There are still a few bugs, so bear with us as I try to fix everything. Thanks!

Howdy folks!

Another successful year at the Garden State Film Festival!

We came home with the “HOME GROWN HORROR” again! Go us!

Head over to The Ties That Bind page to see a video journal of our adventures from the entire weekend!

Got the poster back for Ties, and it looks AWESOME.

Painted by the fantastic Alex McVey and layout by the awesome Zach McCain!

Tickets for the Garden State Film Festival are now on sale!

Go to http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/56875 to buy tickets for the screening of The Ties That Bind!

Yes folks, that’s right. We have a date and time!

Even though Ties IS screening the weekend before at a much smaller festival, the Garden State Film Festival will be our big premiere.

Luckily, we got a great time slot (Saturday night 8ish is always the best!). However, this does mean that we’ll be play directly against whatever “big” movie is playing at the festival at the Paramount this year. But whatevs. We tied for “audience choice” last year with the big film, so I’m confident we can do it again!

And we got a great venue, too. Though The Paramount Theater is the big one for this festival, The Berkeley is just as good, if not better, for this film. It’s a gorgeous, historic hotel that dates back to the glory days of Asbury Park. And it’s directly next to the hub of the film festival, The Paramount.

Not only that, but it seats 300 people! Which, compared to last year’s screening at The Wonder Bar (fit 150 people, and we squeezed in 200), is pretty good. We’ll be in the Continental Room (make sure you go to the right place, there’s another room with another screening block at 9PM!)

In any event, you are all welcome to come!

Let me give you a breakdown of how the screenings work, though. You buy a pass for a “block” of film screenings. Each block is about 2 hours long. Within that block, you usually get one “feature” (that’s a relative term, here, however) and a bunch of shorts. Usually the block is tied together by a common theme. The theme for this block seems to be “Free for all” though. Seriously. We got horror, animation, thriller, comedy…everything! If anything, the theme is Kevin Interdonato, as he is in TWO of the films (Ties and the feature for our block).

Anyway, the idea is to get there early to get a good seat. If you get there late, and the seats are filled, you probably won’t be let in (until after the screening starts, and then we’ll sneak you in).

Tickets are $10, and weekend passes are $45. Weekend passes are now on sale, but I’m sure you don’t want that. Give it a day or two, and regular tickets will go on sale.

Check out https://gsff09.withoutabox.com/ and click on PASSES to buy tickets. You have to find the screening you want, and then select the BUY TICKETS link right next to it!

Or, just visit http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/56875 to purchase tickets directly for this screening.

There’s an opening night party on Friday night, but it was lame as hell last year. If enough of you guys want to come out and actually do come out, I have no problem getting a couple of rooms at the Berkeley (or somewhere else) for the night, and partying with you guys into the wee hours of the morning to celebrate the film.

So, if you’re in the area April 4th, please, please, please, PLEASE! come out and support the film. I’d love to have you there!!